Blues Journeys Home | New and Selected Poems | by | Houston A. Baker, Jr. | Illustrated by Jeff Donaldson | [publisher's device] | LOTUS PRESS | Detroit | 1985
In Memory of My Father, | Houston A. Baker, Sr.
[1 of 2] Acknowledgements | The author wishes to thank James Olney for including a number of poems that | appear in the present volume in a recent issue of The Southern Review. He is | grateful as well for Naomi Long Madgett's permission to reprint poems that | appeared in earlier volumes of his work published by Lotus Press. And he feels |
[2 of 2] enormous gratitude for a grant from the Research Foundation of the University of | Pennsylvania which helped to finance the present volume and made possible the | brilliant illustrations by Jeff Donaldson.
illustration of a group of people gathered outside, a small cabin in the background
illustration of a male figure (pastor?) and female figure with arms outstretched above a crowd of silhouettes
illustration of a ploughman and mule in the field
illustration of a guitarist playing for a woman amongst a crowd of dancing silhouettes
psychedelic illustration of a saxophone player
Blues Journeys Home (1985 Lotus Press edition)
1985 first edition published by Lotus Press, Detroit